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Superior Iron Man is the best Iron Man run in a long time, and that not because of some trolly "durr Iron Man sucks and has no good stories" meme.
I think the best IM stories deal with the intersection of business, politics, and technology. Extremis for example dealt with the question of at what point does accepting money from dubious sources justify the science that is enabled from it. Superior moved Tony to San Francisco, where he should have been from the start, and cast him in the role of a really valley tech Utopian guru. I have no doubt half the valley would do the things Tony did if they were able to. And probably charge even more to boot.
The TV show Silicon Valley, while a silly comedy, is probably the closest to the type of stories IM should be telling, but it's not. Bendis is telling a really boring and retrograde Iron Man that has not a fucking clue about where business/tech are going in the real world.
